Monday, November 1, 2010

Credit Where Credit Is Due

To all my readers, sorry for being away so long from the blog posting, life has a way of sometimes getting away from you....

Tonight I am coming on in a little bit of a melancholy mood. The new Haynes Trek Manual came out today and I have to say I am so disappointed at the outcome. The cutaway drawings for the Enterprise D and even more so the Enterprise E are lifts from our poster work. I would have loved to come on tonight to say that this was flattering, but I can't. Going to the back of the book you can clearly see that we are given no credit for our work! The lift of David Kimball's STMP Enterprise is clearly credited but not the work of my brother and myself. Given the fastidious nature of Mike Okuda to get the facts correct it seems he didn't bother to provide in put on the credit page for us as the technical expert for this book. We are surprised and saddened.

I can remember the day that the Rick Sternbach Blueprint set arrived at my door, the sheer joy I felt at seeing my name credited correctly... I felt honored to be remembered for the work I did all those years ago. Matt and I are considering how we feel about this omission. We aren't looking for money, we are looking for respect, respect for the hundreds of hours we have put into the work.

2 comments:

Oh this is horrible! I just bought the Haynes book with excitement because I love technical Illustrations. But I absolutely HATE the fact that you are not credited! Need to make this clearly known and have them revise the book in the next edition, I'll sign my name to that if it helps, just need to raise enough signatures and they should listen, that's the right thing to do.

Trekspert

More than a Star Trek Fan Boy Christopher has gone from an avid watcher since 1966 to working on Star Trek projects from the forth season of Star Trek The Next Generation through to Voyager and the movie First Contact as an illustrator. Christopher has been an ardent supporter of Trek Lore and Canon and hopes to share his experiences and opinion on the state of Trek and other sci-fi shows on this blog!